A brief list of some of the possibilities includes

• generating surfaces,
• modifying the Alias DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) hierarchy,
• modifying animations, and
• writing conversion utilities.

Plug-ins can be written using OpenAlias, which can read or write new file formats and can interactively generate geometry, lights, and shaders. Many stand-alone OpenModel applications can be easily converted into OpenAlias plug-ins.